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Happy Fathers Day!! ALBINO LEOPARD!!!

snakesatsunset Jun 21, 2009 03:15 PM

Happy Fathers Day to all. Not a father in the human sense, but this is a great fathers day present for me!
Years ago I saw leopards at Daytona and thought that they would look awesome as albinos. I picked up a pair and raised them up. I bred the leopard male to an albino female and got 11 dbl hets. 3 of those dbl hets supposedly "died" under someone elses care, and I was left with 7 dbl hets. I thought I had 2.5 but turned out to be 3.4
I have bred colombians for years but never produced central type boas. I was not used to the size and decided that they were still too small. Spoke with Tom Burke at Daytona and he told me size was not an issue, they breed alot smaller then I would think. So I missed last years breeding season when I could have tried to produce them. Oh well, they only got a little bigger.
Well this year I put all the groups together and saw lots and lots of breeding. My buddy, Kevin, from BCI EXOTICS would come by with his ultrasound and check on the progress of the females for me.
Then this:
1st female: 2 leopards, 4 albinos, 1 poss. dbl het MISSED!!
2nd female: 1 leopard still, 8 slugs- first time ever I actually had more then a few slugs MISSED AGAIN!!
3rd female: 6 slugs, 4 smokin hot Leopards. MISSED!! NOW IM SWEATING.
4th female: had her babies today. Opened bin all I see are 1 Leopard, 2 Albinos, 6 dbl hets. I was worried I had missed again!!! She was still twitching so closed the bin and left. Came back, saw that she was about to spit another one out.
Please note that I have NEVER seen one of my boas give birth. I have had dozens and dozens of litters and NOT ONCE, not even close, have I seen babies come out. I opened the bin and BAM while I was actually watching, she pops out an ALBINO LEOPARD!
TALK ABOUT AWESOME!!
5th female: ??? still due.
Enjoy the pics

Replies (12)

boaphile Jun 21, 2009 03:59 PM

Congrats on a great litter! Your math skills make me wonder about you, but the babies are great! I can't wait to see that puppy post shed!
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snakesatsunset Jun 21, 2009 04:37 PM

The excitement got me messed up.

JaredHorenstein Jun 21, 2009 05:12 PM

Nice luck....

Grats..
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Treeserpent Jun 21, 2009 05:20 PM

Should have gotten a pic of it poppin out! what are you thinkin man! Hey can you post a pic of that really dark baby? What is that a leopard as well?

Carlos F. Jun 21, 2009 08:34 PM

ThanF you for putting the pics up. That project sounded like it was a crazy ride for you, you must be on cloud 9. How did you celebrate?

Think of the good news though, as difficult as it was for it to line up so that you hit on an albino leopard is as difficult as it is for the litter mates to be normals, they gotta be het for one or the other. Thats like the 5th one in the world right? Well, super congrats anyways. Keep us posted on the last female.

jsschrei Jun 21, 2009 09:41 PM

WOW, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!!!!
Congrats on the albino leopard. They are hot!
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Cheers,
Jessica
10.15 Ball Pythons; 8.9 Corn Snakes; 0.0.1 Green Tree Python
2.2 Jungle Carpet Pythons
6.6.1 Bci
3.0 Crazy Dogs and 2.0 cats
Some Tropical Fish
...........and growing!

symetryexotics Jun 21, 2009 10:41 PM

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Kenny Bowman

"Symetry Exotics"
Honesty is the only route to TRUE respect, anything else is unacceptable....

BCIexotics Jun 22, 2009 08:45 AM

Out of 4 females only 1 albino leopard?? [bleep]ty odds but still not such a bad deal...congrats bro! looking forward to those post shed pics!

Tom Burke Jun 22, 2009 10:50 AM

It's one of my more exciting projects and glad to see you hit the 1 in 16 odds!!! It's not as easy as most people think and takes a lot of time to get to the point where there's even the possibility! I'm glad you were rewarded for your time and effort and good luck with your last female.......I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
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Tom Burke
www.BurkeReptiles.com

AbsoluteApril Jun 22, 2009 11:09 AM

what a terrific father's day! I can hear and feel the excitement in your post, I'm so happy you finally hit on your project and got the albino leopard! And to have actually seen it born, that is really cool. Looking forward to those post shed pics
-April
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serpsel Jun 22, 2009 01:16 PM

Way awesome Mike!! Seems like the odds gods where lined up against you until that fourth litter. Hopefully you get some more in the fifth.
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Alex Tower
Serpentine Selections

snakemansexotics Jun 22, 2009 05:33 PM

Just wanted to say congrats on the albino leopard. This is a project that we also are working with and we cant wait.

Congrats again

Rich Parrinello
SnakeMan's Exotics

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